Just about every single thing written here is correct, especially:
Gun: A gun is to shoot your way to safety, not to save the day. You are not a one-man counter-terror team. This is a fast track to being killed either directly, by a second shooter, or by police who have no idea who you are. Even if the cops are wrong in the end, you’re still dead.
Absolutely. Other than to protect yourself and your family, leave the gun in the holster and get the hell away from the situation. Leave the hero bullshit to Hollywood or to the people paid to be heroes, i.e. law enforcement (unless you live in a place like Uvalde TX or some big Blue city, where the cops are cowards).
People often think that just because I’m always yapping about self defense that I’m one of those palookas who just can’t wait for a firefight. Nothing could be further from the truth, which is that I’m a big fat coward right up until I can’t be one because then I’ll be a victim.
But to go looking for trouble? The hell with that.
A gun doesn’t make you bullet proof or invincible. I just gives you a way to resist thuggery and equalize the situation a little.
True to what you said, the first choice in a bad situation is to GTFO of the bullshit.
right on.
My handgun is to protect me and my family while we evacuate the area or defend our home. I am not John Wick, Frank Castle or a super ranger seal green beret Marine Force Recon etc.
The best way to avoid shooting a motherfucker in the face, or getting your face shot, is to stay away from places where that shit happens.
From my, now almost 20 year, perspective it is pretty easy to do.
…as Remus has said many times, “Avoid crowds.”
The best way to reduce chances for sure.
I shop weekends between 6 and 8 am before the largest crowds come or I go out late night when the stores are quiet if I didn’t make it in the morning.
Ever since the SCAMdemic, people act downright crazy. They cut you off in traffic; run red lights and even in stores in person cut you in line and reach their hands in front of your face when you are at the shelf getting something
When you try to tell these zombies they are rude majority of them see no wrong in how they act and some get pissy.
The store employees are split, half serve the entitled zombies when they act up out of fear the other half of employees probably are just as fucked up as the assholes themselves.
Best to avoid the masses for sure.
This is precisely why I put up with an uncomfortable object placed in a difficult on person
location, constantly worry about external appearance as well as the many idiotic rules on where you can and cannot be with said object,. YMMV by state, but where I am it is a royal pain in the kester, literally,
I worked at learning karate for 3 years when I was young, but quit when my master’s advice sank in.
When confronted by a violent individual, if at all possible, leave, and run like hell if necessary.
Kim, one of the outcomes you didn’t mention was using your gun, or martial arts skills, or even your pocket-knife, then getting the Daniel Penny treatment at the hands of some leftist loon prosecutor.